Last week’s take-down of stocks, with the S&P 500 delivering its worst weekly performance in two years, has undoubtedly put a chill down many an investor’s spine. But strategists were coming out of the woodwork on Monday to say, ‘Chill out, people.’

Think the “London Whale” is no longer causing ripples? Think again. CEO Jamie Dimon could lose his chairman’s seat, and three board members could see themselves tipped out of the J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. boat, if shareholders follow the lead of an influential proxy advisory firm.

Boeing Co.
/quotes/zigman/220026/quotes/nls/baBAsaid Wednesday it sees no financial impact for now as a result of the 787 Dreamliner battery fire probe that’s grounded its flagship aircraft, but said it’s possible the view could change.

The attack on the the six-year-old In Amenas energy complex has left in doubt the facility’s energy output of 213,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. BP developed the site after a 1998 production-sharing contract with Sonatrach. Statoil bought a stake in the project from BP in 2003.

“Relative to total production, the volumes here aren’t that high,” said Phil Weiss, an analyst at Argus Research. “Energy stocks overall are up today, and this incident isn’t material enough to overcome general market trends in the sector.”

Herbalife Ltd.
/quotes/zigman/361145/quotes/nls/hlfHLF Chief Executive Officer Michael Johnson will step up to refute challenges to the company’s business model in a key investor meeting at the Four Seasons in New York City on Thursday after interest in the nutritional products maker intensified between rival hedge fund managers and regulators this week.

Herbalife

Up to about 200 investors and analysts are expected for the event, based on the size of the room at the hotel, said one observer. The media is allowed in a separate room. A webcast of the event is being offered here.

Johnson has already dismissed as “bogus” claims by noted hedge fund bear Bill Ackman who accused the company of mimicking a pyramid scheme.

Hedge fund manager Dan Loeb disclosed an 8% stake in Herbalife Ltd.
/quotes/zigman/361145/quotes/nls/hlfHLF on Wednesday, setting up a showdown with notorious short-seller Bill Ackman just a day ahead of a widely-anticipated investor meeting by the maker of nutritional supplements. Adding to the mix, the Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly opened a file on the company, according to reports.

Herbalife shares were briefly halted prior to a filing
that laid out Loeb’s new holding of 8.9 million shares in the company. After the halt, the stock initially spiked up to $42 a share — its highest level in weeks — but has since settled back to a gain of about 5% to $40.33 a share.

While a spokesperson for Loeb didn’t answer an email from MarketWatch seeking comment, his timing signals a stark break from Ackman, who has been accusing Herbalife of setting up a pyramid scheme. An Herbalife spokesman declined to comment on Third Point’s stake.

With the scorecard for the first 11 months of 2012 now out, lower-fee exchange traded funds (ETFs) drew tens of billions more from investors while actively-managed mutual funds lost out big.

Equity ETFs such as the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF
/quotes/zigman/1477965/quotes/nls/vtiVTI drew $30.4 billion in investments. When including hefty money flows into bond-based ETFs, the total take by ETFs climbed by $154 billion.

Meanwhile, investors drew $119.3 billion from U.S. stock funds in 2012 through November, according to data from Morningstar. That amounts to the biggest outflow in a calendar year since 2008.

Polya Lesova, MarketWatch’s deputy New York bureau chief, is filing from the Sohn Investment Conference, where a slew of big hedge fund investors, including Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn, John Paulson of Paulson & Co. and Pershing Square Capital Management’s Bill Ackman are slated to speak. Here’s her first report: Larry Robbins from $4 billion hedge [...]

The rich are different from you and me — and their investment advisers. High-net-worth investors aren’t as optimistic about the U.S. stock market as the professionals they’ve hired to manage their money, according to a survey released Thursday. While 45% of advisers in Charles Schwab Corp.’s semiannual Independent Advisor Outlook Study are sanguine about the [...]

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